Posted on 12/30/2011 8:40:21 AM PST by Paladins Prayer
Nice!
Look for a future mandate requiring new electrical installations to have receptacles that don’t allow traditional bulbs to be screwed in.
That’s an excellent idea.
“And while House Republicans included a provision in a recent spending bill that will block funding for the ban’s enforcement”
Stop dicking around - reverse the law or leave it.
However, the ban gave GE all the reason they needed to shutter an incandescent bulb factory and move it to China.
How does the Obama account for those jobs? Doesn’t seem they were saved or created... here.
Well he can market them as “Mercury free”, lol
In all fairness, they couldn’t reverse the law. That would have required both houses to pass the repeal (and the Senate is controlled by Demonrats) and Obama’s signature or both Houses to pass the repeal by a two-thirds margin (see first parenthetical statement).
It’s really not fair to blame Republicans for doing the best they can. If we don’t like it, we need to get our fellow Amerikans to give the GOP veto-proof majorities.
Easy. Dad would place a drop-light -- turned on, of course -- on top of the engine, then carefully lower the hood so that the shining droplight was contained under the hood, atop the engine. The bulb wattage was, as I recall, 100 watts.
Next morning, the car would start as if the temps had dropped only into the 30s.
I've done the same with a couple of old buildings (one constructed in 1887) on nights when the temps were low enough to freeze the pipes under the sink. Like Dad with the car, I put incandescent lamps (small bedside lamps) under the sinks, turned on of course,and closed the doors covering the under-sink space. The 100 watt incandescent bulbs kept everything under the sink cozy and warm enough to avoid freezing pipes.
And the dems in the Senate? Harry Reid is pro-ban.
Sometimes witholding the funds is the only option...
Sorry, but it was Fred Upton, R-MI6, that cosponsored this legislation in the house. Chances of winning are greatly diminished when your own side is lobbing grenades at you.
These heatballs are very efficient heaters within the house. As efficient as an electric heater/furnace. Even the visible light warms those objects it hits.
Also, toasters are light bulbs, but not very good ones. I’ve got one of these 1000 W bulbs in the kitchen. On dark nights, you can read by the weak orange glow between toast or bagels. Abe Lincoln would have enjoyed one of these as he studied his law books.
(Actually, electric heating is pretty bad. Since electric generating plants are roughly 50% efficient, you have already lost half of the energy released by the fuel. About half the energy goes out the stack at the plant. With gas or oil heat, you burn the fuel right there in your house with much less loss.)
Just like Prohibition, these ridiculous government bans on products people want will create a black market or a new opportunity for organized crime. I expect that guys in back alleys will soon be hawking 100W incandescent bulbs, high flow toilets and cigarettes from unmarked trucks.
Stop dicking around - reverse the law or leave it.
Apparently, you, "do not know how Washington works" as Boehner once told Rush. A refrain that was repeated by Mitch McConnell in the most recent cave by the congressional Republicans during the payroll tax cut extension talks.
The whole of Congress has to be cleaned out and fumigated!!
I blame the republican who signed it into law.
I use more 60W bulbs than anything. I’ve noticed the during the last little while that they are not lasting as long as they used to.
This incandescent light bulb ban is a fine example of anarcho-tyranny. Anarcho-tyranny means the Gov’t harrases and burdens you with thousands of idiotic laws while not enforcing the important laws such as enforcmnet on our Mexican border and ejecting illegal immigrants. Reentry after being deported is a felony. This is never enforced
Anarcho-tyranny is when you have state Gov’ts making .08 blood alcohol a drunk driving offense. Also when police harass the middle class with inane traffic tickets while never exerting themselves to bust drug dealers
Sorry, but it was Fred Upton, R-MI6, that cosponsored this legislation in the house. Chances of winning are greatly diminished when your own side is lobbing grenades at you.
And George W. Bush signed it into law!!
My last one lasted three weeks. Guess they were manufactured some time ago. Heading to buy a few extra boxes. I am not sure what to think about the new bulbs.. Lead and electricity?
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